Salesforce Patents an LLM System That Tests and Trains Its Own AI Agents
Building AI agents is one challenge — figuring out whether they work correctly is a whole other problem. Salesforce is patenting a…
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Apple Patents a Context-Aware AR Filter That Manages Notification Overload
Imagine your AR glasses deciding, on their own, that you're in the middle of a sprint interval — and silencing every floating…
Apple Patents a Two-Stage Playback Control System Driven by Gaze and Gesture
Apple is patenting a media control system that responds differently depending on whether you glance at it or actively stare — a…
Apple Patents an Apple Watch That Detects Surface Taps Using Light
Apple is working on an Apple Watch that can tell when your hand taps a table, desk, or any surface — without…
Apple Patents a Curve-Based Method for Generating HDR Gain Maps
Apple is filing patents around one of the quieter but genuinely tricky problems in modern photography: how do you let an HDR…
Apple Patents a System That Picks the Nearest Speaker When You Hit Play
What if your iPhone just knew to play music through the kitchen HomePod because that's the room you walked into? Apple's new…
Apple Patents a Context-Aware Call Handoff System Between Nearby Devices
Apple is patenting a system that notices when your nearby iPhone is on a live video call — and asks your iPad…
Apple Patents a Programmable Chip That Bakes CNN Layers Directly Into Hardware
Apple is exploring a chip design where each layer of a convolutional neural network gets its own dedicated slice of programmable hardware…
Apple Patents Mid-Air Gesture Control for Wireless Speaker Playback
Apple is patenting a way to control nearby speakers — volume, track skipping, pause, play — using nothing but hand gestures in…
Apple Patents a Grouped UI for Tracking Paired Accessories in Find My
If you've ever opened Find My and struggled to tell your left AirPod from your right one, Apple's latest patent suggests a…
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